The Yeti Band

This was one the last bands that Doug played in before Alien Planetscapes was born and I had presumed the name was inspired by Amon Duul II but it turns out it was named after Steven Bosky's 1969 Opera of the same name. Here is some more details about the Yeti band from Doug's first wife. "It has been a long time and my memory has faded a little but here is what I remember. The band had 2 brothers, Kenny Kern who was an awesome guitarist with 10 pedals and always 1 bad patch cord. His brother Arnie played sax. Frank Paschke played bass and small percussion. There was a synth player
Putnery VCS-3 named Tom (dont remember the last name) who ran the import section at Record World in Roosevelt Field which is how wehooked up with them. There was also a drummer whose name I dont
remember but moved to Providence RI to go to RISD and I remember weall went up there one weekend to jam. And another bass player. We would go out to Kenny and Arnies's house and jam every Sunday
afternoon. At that time Doug was playing alto and soprano sax and flute. Then we got ripped off and his sax and flute were stolen (we were living in Queens at the time) and he got an alto flute. David
Murray offered to sell him his soprano sax cheap when he heard about the robbery but by that time Doug was also jamming with 2 guys in Yonkers, Mark Purdy and I dont remember the name of the other guy but he had a Degan vibraphone, serial number 52 I think and Doug wanted to play the vibes so we bought that, it just barely fit in our Toyota Corolla in the cases, if the car had been a 2 door it would have never fit.
The Yeti Band also played a gig in metro Wash DC with another group whose name I cant remember, I want to say the Muffins. Doug met them networking and we went down there, I remember Jeremy, Lee and Ken were there and dont remember who else. Unfortunately someone from the Yeti had an OD on smack later that night and was quite sick. And the sont
Yeti had lyrics "have you heard about the Yeti? Tore ten men to threads of spaghetti"

Members
Doug Walker- Organ, Alto Flute, Vibes, Radio
Steven Bosky- Guitar
Lee Teich- Guitar
Craig Birnie- Bass
Jeremy Posner- Drums
Alan Baratz- Drums
Ken Simon- Tenor & Soprano Saxes, Flutes
Tim Jerne- Alto Saxophone

Gigs

The Grotto, Brooklyn, NY 10/25/79 60M
Washington DC 1980?
Someplace Nice, NYC 4/19/80